Re: Lyx command line question

[Roy Schestowitz]

_/ On Wed 19 Oct 2005 19:42:31 BST, [Paul] wrote : \_


PS: Please always reply to the list


I second that. I noticed a tendency to reply off-list. This leaves
gaps in the mailing list archives and puts off a subset of list
subscribers. css-discuss, on the contrary, adopted some different
habits. The main question to ask is "would the group or the World
Wide Web benefit from this response or is its scope too narrow?". For
the latter, in the case of Web site critique, there needn't be a
public message available as it is site-specific or refers to browser
bugs that are soon to vanish.


Maybe it's just my mail client, but this list seems to default for a
reply to the sender instead of to the list, unlike all the other lists
I've ever been on. I accidently sent a reply intended for the list to
the sender and didn't realise until a few days later. So maybe other
people have the same problem.


I  hope  you  didn't  find offence in that, Paul. The trick is  to  use  a
feature/widget  called "Reply to list" if your clients presents it. I per-
sonally  use  Thunderbird for mail (locally) and Horde for mailing  lists.
Experience has taught me how to reply correctly, having made some mistakes
in  the  past. If nobody pointed this out, you possibly would  never  have
learned. Think of it as a gentle reminder.

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How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?

[Stefano Franchi]

	I need to recover the ability to generate (and see) a Pdf file via the 
dvips route. I lost the relevant items in the "View" menu a long time 
ago and never  bother fixing the problem, because I was happy with 
pdftex. But now I have problems with the latter (after installing some 
fancy fonts) and need to go the other route. Can anyone remind me how 
to reinstruct LyX to perform the proper conversions?


I am on a Mac, 10.3.9, running LyX 1.3.6 with Gerben Wierda's version 
of TeTex. dvips and company work fine when used from the console and/or 
TexShop.


I know this is a question that has been asked many times, but my search 
through the archives didn't help. Apologies in advance.



Many thanks,

Stefano


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Re: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)

[Andre Berger]

* Alexander  Gahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-20 09:59 +0200:
> Hm tried this before but gave it another try.
> I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only.
> Removed /Users/gahr/Library/Application Support/LyX this is the place 
> where in the apple installation the perferences are stored.
> 
> But i have the same problem i can't add word to a dictionary from within 
> lyx. 

No top-posting, please!

I didn't make clear enough I suggested to remove the aspell
preferences files, $YOURPREFIX/etc/aspell.conf and ~/.aspell.conf!

-Andre

Lyx Bibliography section without numbered entries

[Lachlan]

Although using Lyx for a few years now in my science subjects, I have a history 
essay due on Monday and that is making me use features of Lyx that I am not 
very familiar with.

As far as bibliographies are concerned, I read about Jurabib (and with the help 
of a few people on this forum got it to work).  However, the footnote citing in 
Jurabib is not what I need (there is no punctuation between the author and the 
title, for example) and I don't have time to work it all out.

Instead I am using the Lyx Bibliography paragraph style for the first time.  It 
is working fine, but by default produces a bibliography with entries numbered 
in square brackets.  The style required for my history essay is to have the 
entries unnumbered, in alphabetical order (which I can do manually, it is not 
that big), and WITH ALL BUT THE FIRST LINE OF EACH ENTRY INDENTED!

I have 2 questions:
- Can I get the bibliography paragraphs to format this way?
- If not, is there a manual way to achieve indenting on all but the first line 
of a paragraph?

When I have more time I will look into Jurabib more thoroughly, as it is the 
really satisfying way to do things.

- Lachlan

Re: Lyx command line question

[Paul Smith]

On 10/20/05, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I don't agree. Read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, and
> >> then get a decent email program (or news client, if you read the list
> >> via gmane). For example, I press L in kmail when I want to answer to the
> >> list.
> >
> > I ignored all those details (discussed at the site above). It seems
> > that it is wiser the way the mailing list is currently organized.
> > Since I have a GMail account exclusively dedicated to mailing lists
> > and considering that I do not want to keep the archives of my mailing
> > lists on my computer, I use webmail, which does not have,
> > unfortunately, the feature "reply to the list".
>
> Sounds like you should use a news reader and point it at
> gmane.editors.lyx.general

Good idea, Angus! Thanks.

Paul

Re: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)

[Alexander Gahr]

Thank you very much that really solved my problem.
I think i did nearly everything before, except from clearing the  
aspell.conf


Thanx a lot

Alex

Lyx is a very good program.

Am 20.10.2005 um 10:47 schrieb Andre Berger:


* Alexander  Gahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-20 09:59 +0200:


Hm tried this before but gave it another try.
I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only.
Removed /Users/gahr/Library/Application Support/LyX this is the place
where in the apple installation the perferences are stored.

But i have the same problem i can't add word to a dictionary from  
within

lyx.



No top-posting, please!

I didn't make clear enough I suggested to remove the aspell
preferences files, $YOURPREFIX/etc/aspell.conf and ~/.aspell.conf!

-Andre

Re: How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stefano Franchi wrote:
I need to recover the ability to generate (and see) a Pdf file via 
the dvips route. I lost the relevant items in the "View" menu a long 
time ago and never  bother fixing the problem, because I was happy with 
pdftex. But now I have problems with the latter (after installing some 
fancy fonts) and need to go the other route. Can anyone remind me how to 
reinstruct LyX to perform the proper conversions?


I am on a Mac, 10.3.9, running LyX 1.3.6 with Gerben Wierda's version of 
TeTex. dvips and company work fine when used from the console and/or 
TexShop.




The following assumes that Ghostscript is also installed and working, 
since you need it for the Postscript->PDF conversion (unless something 
else is used on Macs).


Go to the Edit->Preferences->Converters dialog.  You need two 
converters, DVI->Postscript and Postscript->PDF.  On my system (Win XP, 
but this should be platform-independent) the Converter: line for 
DVI->Postscript is 'dvips -o $$o $$i' with no extra flags; for 
Postscript->PDF it is 'ps2pdf13 $$i', again with no flags.  (You may 
want to experiment with other converters from the Ghostscript lib 
directory, such as ps2pdf14.)


If a converter is present but the Converter: line is empty, you can fill 
in the field and click Modify and then Save.  If a converter is 
completely missing, set the From: and To: drop down lists, fill in the 
Converter: line, then click New followed by Save.


Paul

Beamer Class: Lost Logo

[Rich Shepard]

  In a couple of presentations I have the following ERT immediately after the
author block on the title slide:

\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{institution-logo}{/home/rshepard/data/slide-presentation/beamer/aesi-logo}
\logo{\pgfuseimage{institution-logo}}

but nothing shows up on the slides when viewed with pdflatex. The image is
available as both .jpg and .png.

  I'm not seeing what I broke since it last worked. Hints and suggestions are
encouraged.

TIA,

Rich

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Re: Beamer Class: Lost Logo

[Jose' Matos]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 16:13, Rich Shepard wrote:
>In a couple of presentations I have the following ERT immediately after
> the author block on the title slide:
>
> \pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{institution-logo}{/home/rshepard/data/slide-
>presentation/beamer/aesi-logo} \logo{\pgfuseimage{institution-logo}}
>
> but nothing shows up on the slides when viewed with pdflatex. The image is
> available as both .jpg and .png.
>
>I'm not seeing what I broke since it last worked. Hints and suggestions
> are encouraged.

  AFAIR you need the file suffix for pdflatex.

> TIA,
>
> Rich

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Re: Beamer Class: Lost Logo -- SOLVED

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:


 AFAIR you need the file suffix for pdflatex.


Jose',

  Actually, that's not true. At least with the beamer class any suffix that
can be processed by pdflatex works.

  In any case, I found the source of the problem: user error, of course. I
had one letter wrong in the path to the image.

  Sorry for taking up bandwidth with this. I now return you to your normal
Thursday.

Rich

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Re: How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?

[Stefano Franchi]

On Oct 20, 2005, at 6:38 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:



Go to the Edit->Preferences->Converters dialog.  You need two 
converters, DVI->Postscript and Postscript->PDF.  On my system (Win 
XP, but this should be platform-independent) the Converter: line for 
DVI->Postscript is 'dvips -o $$o $$i' with no extra flags; for 
Postscript->PDF it is 'ps2pdf13 $$i', again with no flags.  (You may 
want to experiment with other converters from the Ghostscript lib 
directory, such as ps2pdf14.)


If a converter is present but the Converter: line is empty, you can 
fill in the field and click Modify and then Save.  If a converter is 
completely missing, set the From: and To: drop down lists, fill in the 
Converter: line, then click New followed by Save.


Paul



Thanks Paul,

	the procedure you mentioned is more or less what I remembered, thanks 
for the details. But I cannot get it to work. Nothing shows up in 
either the View or Export menus. I suppose LyX knows what it is 
supposed to do to carry out the various conversions, but cannot find 
some relevant piece of software. Is there a way to get some more 
information on what is going on? I tried to start LyX in debug mode, 
but since I cannot trigger any "coverting" action, that's hardly 
helpful.



Best,

Stefano


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Re: How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stefano Franchi wrote:



Thanks Paul,

the procedure you mentioned is more or less what I remembered, 
thanks for the details. But I cannot get it to work. Nothing shows up in 
either the View or Export menus. I suppose LyX knows what it is supposed 
to do to carry out the various conversions, but cannot find some 
relevant piece of software. Is there a way to get some more information 
on what is going on? I tried to start LyX in debug mode, but since I 
cannot trigger any "coverting" action, that's hardly helpful.




Stefano,

Does this mean that the DVI->Postscript and Postscript->PDF converters 
are correctly listed in the Edit->Preferences->Converters dialog?  If 
so, is Ghostscript installed, and does the ps2pdf13 command run if 
invoked from the console?


When you say "nothing shows up" in the View and Export menus, do you 
mean just no way to View/Export PDF?  Or do you mean no way to 
View/Export a DVI as well?  If the latter, it might imply that LyX is 
having a hard time finding LaTeX.


If you can view DVIs but not PDFs with the DVI->PS->PDF route, then the 
next question is whether you can view/export PDFs using pdflatex or dvipdfm?


Paul

Windows 1.3.6: unrecognizable math symbols

[Lars Henriksen]

Hello,

I have been using the unofficial Windows port installed in
a Cygwin environment for a while.

Now I have downloaded and installed LyX 1.3.6 for Windows.
The installation of all needed components went smoothly
and OK (as far as I can tell).

But the result was disappointing in that mathematical symbols
and greek letters etc. no longer display as anything recognizable.
E.g. the symbol for a greek alfa is a trademark sign, a sum sign
is a capital P. When converted to dvi format the result is fine.

What am I missing? Please respond directly, I'm not subscribed to
the list.

Lars Henriksen

Re: Windows 1.3.6: unrecognizable math symbols

[Paul A. Rubin]

Lars Henriksen wrote:

Hello,

I have been using the unofficial Windows port installed in
a Cygwin environment for a while.

Now I have downloaded and installed LyX 1.3.6 for Windows.
The installation of all needed components went smoothly
and OK (as far as I can tell).

But the result was disappointing in that mathematical symbols
and greek letters etc. no longer display as anything recognizable.
E.g. the symbol for a greek alfa is a trademark sign, a sum sign
is a capital P. When converted to dvi format the result is fine.

What am I missing? Please respond directly, I'm not subscribed to
the list.

Lars Henriksen



You probably just need to install the BaKoMa fonts.  See 
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136#installer_limitations (scroll down a 
bit to the paragraph on fonts).  Download the fonts, unzip them into a 
temporary directory, then run the fonts applet from the Windows control 
panel and tell it to install all the fonts it finds in the temporary 
directory.


Paul

Environment Button Changes Shape

[Rich Shepard]

  This is a minor point, but annoying nonetheless.

  When I invoke LyX, the environment choice button at the left of the icon
bar is small. As soon as I load a beamer document, that button expands to
consume about 1/3 the horizontal space in the window. This drives the macro
entry widget to the line below. All this in 1.3.6/qt on linux.

  Is this a beamer issue or something that I can control? I see nothing in
the Edit->Preferences->Look 'n' Feel menus.

Rich

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